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Tuesday, 28 April 2020

About half of the millions of U.S. workers laid off by the coronavirus pandemic could end up earning more out of work than when they had a job, new analyses of jobless benefits show.

On This Day in American History
On April 28, 1967, boxer Muhammad Ali refuses to be inducted into the U.S. military, citing his Muslim religious beliefs. He was immediately stripped of his heavyweight title. When announcing his refusal, Ali famously said, “I ain’t got no quarrel with those Vietcong.” The boxing icon was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison and given a $10,000 fine. He was also banned from boxing for three years. He managed to stay out of prison through the appeal process, and in 1970, he returned to the ring. In 1971, his conviction was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.

While South Korea has refuted numerous reports speculating about Kim’s possible death and insisted there are “no unusual movements” in North Korea, analysts are taking interest in the profile of Kim Yo Jong, Kim’s younger sister who is described as one of Kim’s most trusted advisers.

In the poor Delmas 75 neighborhood of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, residents are keeping their hands clean and preventing the spread of the novel coronavirus thanks to a brand-new contraption, courtesy of teen inventor and recycler.

VIDEO: Spain has relaxed what was one of the world’s strictest lockdowns, allowing children to go outside Sunday for the first time in more than a month. Under the relaxed measures, Spanish children under the age of 14 can go for one-hour walks within one kilometer of their homes between the hours of 9 a.m. and 9 p.m.

Rights groups accuse some authoritarian governments of using the coronavirus pandemic as a pretext to further limit free expression. But in the North African country of Algeria, the trend is partly going the other way.

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